Is the city legally able to start privatizing the bus services? We have managed to survive for almost a month with out buses running and it's not the end of the world. Time to permanently solve this problem if they vote agaist, I personaly don't care if the solution takes a little longer. We the taxpayers don't want to pay those unreasonable rate any longer.

Anonymous: Privatization is an interesting idea. I think London, England has all-private bus service now: we could look into that and see how it's worked out for them.

From what I understand, though, our transit is expensive not because it's unionized, but because Queen's Park won't subsidize it much when it doesn't cross municipal boundaries. Besides, there's no guarantee that private bus companies won't unionize.